B wins easily for me. I am most inclined to want to explore natural and believable worlds and for me this would need to be a role playing game. While the visual was the most attractive to me to begin with, I did peek to see which game was what of the pics and sure enough my choice fit the kind of game I'd most enjoy playing.
Going back earlier to this kind of game with graphics not so fancy as the above, I love the open world exploration of Morrowind, finding abandoned small dungeons in various places and checking them out or finding Dwemer (sp?) ruins and exploring those mysterious places, etc. I found all of that so fun and immersive.
Just generally speaking though I like exploring a cool looking, interesting world ideally with danger potentially around any corner but not constantly. I've always liked MMO's for this too. EverQuest has an enormous, varied and very interesting world to explore with more a little peril along the way. My ability to wax nostalgic for Norrath where I was there so early on means I enjoy all of it when I visit, from the oldest areas (oldest graphics) to the newest which look pretty nice. In the same way, I like seeing new places in World of Warcraft although that game really doesn't afford anywhere near the exploration experience of EverQuest given its quest hub centric focus out in the various zones. It tends to be more on rails really without there being much benefit to exploration (or much to find really) unless you are just seeking good places to harvest resources perhaps. I've had a lot of fun with WoW but exploration is not one its high points in my opinion.
Anyway, for me the worlds of role playing games are the ones I love to explore and of course the more recent ones with great visuals are as treat but I can still be really immersed in old games too. I just see the old graphics as an art form rather than judging them as eye candy or anything realistic if that makes any sense. For example, I really thought the visuals of Baldur's Gate were just fine aside of the small pixellated characters and even that didn't bother me particularly but I cannot say that looked good either.
I guess I wander off there, sorry. I think you were really interested in the environments themselves. As I mentioned earlier, natural environments that happen to fit well with the kinds of games I enjoy playing would be my favorite but I do also appreciate other ones too, just not as much.
Going back earlier to this kind of game with graphics not so fancy as the above, I love the open world exploration of Morrowind, finding abandoned small dungeons in various places and checking them out or finding Dwemer (sp?) ruins and exploring those mysterious places, etc. I found all of that so fun and immersive.
Just generally speaking though I like exploring a cool looking, interesting world ideally with danger potentially around any corner but not constantly. I've always liked MMO's for this too. EverQuest has an enormous, varied and very interesting world to explore with more a little peril along the way. My ability to wax nostalgic for Norrath where I was there so early on means I enjoy all of it when I visit, from the oldest areas (oldest graphics) to the newest which look pretty nice. In the same way, I like seeing new places in World of Warcraft although that game really doesn't afford anywhere near the exploration experience of EverQuest given its quest hub centric focus out in the various zones. It tends to be more on rails really without there being much benefit to exploration (or much to find really) unless you are just seeking good places to harvest resources perhaps. I've had a lot of fun with WoW but exploration is not one its high points in my opinion.
Anyway, for me the worlds of role playing games are the ones I love to explore and of course the more recent ones with great visuals are as treat but I can still be really immersed in old games too. I just see the old graphics as an art form rather than judging them as eye candy or anything realistic if that makes any sense. For example, I really thought the visuals of Baldur's Gate were just fine aside of the small pixellated characters and even that didn't bother me particularly but I cannot say that looked good either.
I guess I wander off there, sorry. I think you were really interested in the environments themselves. As I mentioned earlier, natural environments that happen to fit well with the kinds of games I enjoy playing would be my favorite but I do also appreciate other ones too, just not as much.